"P.S. Speaking of Plame, this CalPundit post is an absolute must-read. Here's a sample from a former CIA agent [significant snipping follows; see CalPundit's post for the full exchange]:

She has been undercover for three decades, she is not as Bob Novak suggested a CIA analyst....So the fact that she's been undercover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous because she was put undercover for certain reasons...For these journalists to argue that this is no big deal and if I hear another Republican operative suggesting that well, this was just an analyst fine, let them go undercover. Let's put them overseas and let's out them and then see how they like it...I say this as a registered Republican. I'm on record giving contributions to the George Bush campaign...His entire intent was correctly as Ambassador Wilson noted: to intimidate, to suggest that there was some impropriety that somehow his wife was in a decision making position to influence his ability to go over and savage a stupid policy, an erroneous policy and frankly, what was a false policy of suggesting that there were nuclear material in Iraq that required this war....it sickens me to be a Republican to see this...We saw this in the 70s with Marchetti and others and Philip Agee who outed officers and they were killed...The principle's established: do not divulge the names of these people. In my own career trainee class I did not know Joe's wife last name; we went by our first initials....To realize this is a terrific woman, she's a woman of great integrity..."


Amen. For the GOP to gloss over this is the ultimate test of their own patriotism. If country comes first, how could you justify exposing an agent for political purposes? If you are truly the best defenders of national security (of course, not true), then this is indefensible. Where is Ann Coulter's traitors now?